You Will Get Hit

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah. (Psalm 46:1-3)

Whether you are saved or not, rain falls on everybody. That is not a negative confession; it is just life on earth.  There will be trouble, there will be storms, and there will be seasons when everything seems to come at you at once. That doesn’t necessarily mean you did anything wrong. You are not necessarily being punished. You live in a world with a real enemy who isn’t selective about whom he attacks. The difference is not whether the storm comes.

The difference is what happens to you when it does. The Psalmist wrote that God is a very present help in trouble. That means He is right now, right here, in the middle of what is pressing against you. And because God is that kind of refuge, the Psalmist said: “We will not fear.” It is not that we will try not to fear. We will not fear, even if the earth is removed or the mountains fall into the sea and even when things around you are going in directions you never anticipated and cannot control.When the storm comes, the enemy will come immediately and take away the Word that Jesus wants to sow in your heart.

So when something comes against you hard and fast, when a tidal wave of problems hits, the enemy wants to catch you saying the wrong thing. He wants what comes out of your mouth in that moment to be shock, fear, or defeat instead of the Word of God. He knows that if he can get your mouth, he can force his desired outcome.

The word Jesus used in Luke 6 for how the flood hit the house is prosregnumi, which means vehemently, or like a burst, like a tidal wave, all at once. Only one house was still standing when the wave was over. The person who has built their life on the Word of God is not moved by what would destroy everyone else.

Practical Application

Think about the current pressure in your life that you would most honestly describe as a flood. Find what God says about it and start saying that instead of what the circumstances look like.

Psalm 9:9; Psalm 28:7